Muriel's Wedding: Music From And Inspired By The Film [Soundtrack]

Various Artists (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 4, 1995)
• Original Release Date: April 4, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Polydor / Umgd
• ASIN: B000002GLW
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #104,144 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #96 in Music > Pop > Euro Pop > Swedish Pop

Track Listings

1. Bridal Dancing Queen

2. Sugar Baby Love

3. We've Only Just Begun

4. Lonely Hearts

5. The Tide Is High

6. Waterloo

7. I Go to Rio

8. Bean Bag

9. T-Shirt & Jeans

10. I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself

11. Bridal Dancing Queen

12. I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do

13. Happy Together

14. Muriel's Wedding

15. Dancing Queen

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great soundtrack, decent soundtrack CD, June 17, 2001

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This review is from: Muriel's Wedding: Music From And Inspired By The Film (Audio CD)

A fine souvenir of a terrific film and an excellent sampler in its own right, even though it doesn't fully capture the film's moving soundtrack experience. Having seen the film a few times, I still don't recall the Carpenters and Dusty Springfield tunes being there (oh ... "music inspired by", I see), but they're good songs nonetheless. The Rubette track (a 1974 UK smash) is much appreciated and the orchestral version of "Dancing Queen" demonstrates how well Abba's music holds up in other contexts. The film was chock full of Abba songs, though only three found their way to this disc ("Fernando" and "Mamma Mia" are among the film-significant tunes missing), but I guess they didn't want to make this an Abba Greatest Hits CD. Still in all one of the better and more evocative soundtrack CDs of recent years.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Just plain fun, July 11, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Muriel's Wedding: Music From And Inspired By The Film (Audio CD)

Any movie that can incorporate ABBA's music into the plot and makes it work HAS to be good. The bridal 'Dancing Queen' is hauntingly beautiful.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ABBA, ABBA, ABBA!!! This is Fantastic!, July 15, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Muriel's Wedding: Music From And Inspired By The Film (Audio CD)

This wonderful '70's soundtrack features lots of terrific songs. Of course the highlights are ABBA's Waterloo, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, and Dancing Queen. Too bad Mamma Mia isn't on there but it's still wonderful! I hear that Muriel's Wedding features a lot of ABBA songs. ABBA is my favorite group and I really want to see the movie. If anyone writes another review for this soundtrack, please tell me when all of the ABBA songs play. Thanks so much. Actually I did see the part where Muriel and Rhonda lip-synch to Waterloo in some of ABBA's famous costumes doing ABBA's famous choreography and it was laugh-out-loud hilarious!!!
Many of the other songs on here are great too. Some highlights are Peter Allen's I Go to Rio (this makes me tap my feet every time I hear it), Blondie's The Tide Is High (it sounds like a great song to listen to while cruising the Bahamas or some other islands), and The Carpenter's We've Only Just Begun (this is the ideal wedding song along with I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do).
Also Bridal Dancing Queen is far from being album filler. It is beautiful and sometimes (I know this sounds sappy) brings tears to my eyes because it is so soaring.
The only tracks I think I could do without are the short version of Bridal Dancing Queen (since there is already the superior longer version) and Lonely Hearts. That song is so short (1 minute) that it has no emotion and feels rushed and superfluous.
But overall it's better to have too much than too little and this great, fun, and well produced soundtrack is one of the best I've come across. And I have A LOT of soundtracks.